Slowly, votes were found for Al Gore until he took the state.
NM has always been tarnished in my mind since.
Were it up to me I’d pass an anti-vote-fraud law allowing Citizens to follow the ballot box [armed of course], watch the counters, and the certifiers... oh, and they would be given free reign to shoot anyone “finding” a box of ballots OR incorrectly certifying the vote.
Bloodthirsty? Perhaps.